I’ve had this for several weeks now, but I just didn’t have the stomach to look at it again until now. On December 4, 2023, I received from IL Senator Dick Durbin an email reply to my October demand for a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to what was then an incipient and is now a full-blown genocidal campaign. It’s a different flavor of dishonesty than that offered by my state’s other U.S. senator, but it is no less vile. I’ll reprint the whole thing before offering my comments:
Dear Mr. Holloway:
Thank you for contacting me about the recent attack on Israel by Hamas. I appreciate hearing from you.
On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched a terrorist attack on Israel from Gaza. Thousands have been killed or wounded, a majority of them civilians. In addition, Hamas has taken an estimated 200 people hostage, including an unconfirmed number of American citizens. Since the attack, I have received regular, direct updates from the White House and worked with the United States Department of State to assist Illinoisans immediately impacted by this tragedy.
No cause or grievance justifies the deliberate killing of innocent civilians. For too long, this protracted conflict has inflicted untold suffering on innocent Israelis and Palestinians.
As a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, I have long supported strong security funding for Israel, including for the Iron Dome defense system. On October 16, 2023, I joined my Senate colleagues in introducing S. Res. 417, a resolution expressing solidarity with Israel in the wake of the attacks by Hamas. On October 19, 2023, the Senate passed S. Res. 417 by a vote of 97-0.
At the same time, I also have long pushed for a peaceful agreement that would provide a secure independent state for the Palestinians. On October 18, 2023, I joined more than 30 of my Senate colleagues in sending a letter to Secretary Blinken, urging that the United States contribute humanitarian assistance to Gaza and the West Bank. On the same day, President Biden announced the United States would be providing $100 million in humanitarian assistance to aid the Palestinian people.
On October 20, 2023, President Biden released a $106 billion national security emergency supplemental funding request, which includes support for Israel, Ukraine, humanitarian relief for Gaza, and resources to protect our border. On October 31, 2023, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee on the importance of this supplemental funding request. I will carefully consider this request as Congress works to finalize funding priorities for Fiscal Year 2024.
I applaud President Biden for acting decisively to support Israel as it responds to these horrific acts of terror and taking swift action to provide clean water, food, hygiene support, medical care, and other essential needs to civilians in Gaza and the West Bank. On November 23, 2023, Israel and Hamas entered into a humanitarian pause that allowed the release of hostages held by Hamas in exchange for the release of prisoners held by Israel.
I will continue to monitor the situation closely and keep your concerns in mind should Congress consider measures regarding this crisis.
Thank you again for contacting me. Please feel free to keep in touch.
Durbin’s scribes start off by framing the discourse with a multifaceted lie. I absolutely did not mention ‘Hamas’s attack’ in my email. Furthermore, in the second paragraph, Durbin starts the timeline at October 7, and focuses entirely on the alleged actions of ‘Hamas.’ By December 4, a good deal of information was publicly available – much of it originating in Israeli media – that debunked the initial propaganda about the Palestinian resistance fighters’ alleged savagery. One key point clarifies the apparent source of most of the lethal violence on that day: the IDF. Of particular interest is the clearly debunked claim of ‘terrorists beheading babies’ that President Joe Biden is still occasionally repeating.
The third through sixth paragraphs are really rich. Durbin briefly expresses concern for ‘innocent Palestinians,’ then immediately spends three paragraphs boasting about how he helped the White House lavish unconditional material and diplomatic support upon Israel so that it could continue its campaign against Palestinians.
Durbin closes by applauding Genocide Joe for “taking swift action to provide clean water, food, hygiene support, medical care, and other essential needs to civilians in Gaza and the West Bank,” knowing full well that the White House has done absolutely no such thing, and indeed has blocked any attempts at a ceasefire or at forcing Israel to allow any substantial relief to reach the people of Gaza.
At this point it should go without saying that Dick Durbin and the entire Democratic Party are fully on board with the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the continuing genocide of the Palestinian people. I will only add that a vote for any of these monsters is an act of complicity in their crimes. Do with that what you will.
This isn’t exactly an ‘I told you so,’ because I can’t say that I thought it would get this bad even by 2023, but in retrospect I do think the last chance for USA to avoid this apocalyptic trajectory was back in November 2012.
The right wing had shown its hand with the Tea Party, and Saint Barry had clearly demonstrated that he was a bloodthirsty shill for corporate-run empire, and the millions who’d come out of the woodwork to vote for him four years earlier had no place to alleviate their disillusionment (or so I thought at the time). The Chicago Teachers Union had successfully stood up to the brutally neoliberal mayoral regime of Rahm Emanuel.
Dr. Jill Stein was running a long-shot Green Party campaign that managed to get on the ballot in more than enough states to secure an Electoral College majority, and the lion’s share of the electorate flat-out ignored her in favor of another four years of Barack “I Have a Drone” Obama.
That was it, I think: the beginning of the end.
So now we’ve finally lesser-eviled ourselves into genocide, and the Democrats show no sign of backtracking from this diabolical path. Good times.
“Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
So the other day I did what all good citizens of this (supposed) democracy are expected to do when they see their government – from its most local to its highest levels – and all adjacent national institutions commit themselves to enthusiastically abetting an ongoing genocide: I wrote emails to my U.S. senators.
I wrote to Illinois Senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth to register my abject disgust with the White House and Congress’s unequivocal support for Israel’s ongoing massive campaign of bombing civilians by the thousands in the world’s largest-ever concentration camp, the Gaza Strip.
To date I’ve not yet received a reply from Durbin’s office, but I just received an email response from Duckworth’s. It’s a doozy, and I will reprint it in its entirety here before offering my own commentary:
Dear Mr. Holloway,
Thank you for contacting me about Hamas’ horrific terrorist attacks against Israel. I condemn, in the strongest possible terms, Hamas’ brutal violence that began on October 7, 2023, with a complex and coordinated invasion of Israel that targeted innocent civilians and resulted in Hamas committing atrocities against Jewish families, including infants, children and the elderly. The United States must stand in solidarity with Israel in the aftermath of these deadly terrorist attacks that resulted in the worst loss of Jewish life in a single day since the Holocaust. There is never any excuse for terrorism. I was proud to cosponsor and vote for passage of S.Res.417, Standing with Israel Against Terrorism, which reaffirms the Senate’s resolve to stand with Israel and Israel’s right to self-defense and condemns Hamas’ actions and Iran’s support for groups like Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Hamas has nothing to offer the Palestinian people except for suffering, hatred and death. I reject efforts to draw a false equivalence between our democratic ally, Israel, and Hamas, a terrorist organization dedicated to the destruction of our ally and driven by a hatred of the Jewish people. Israel has the right to self-defense in the aftermath of such indiscriminate violence and shocking atrocities against its people, and it has acted swiftly by forming a unity government and declaring war on Hamas. Importantly, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are bound by the laws of war, in stark contrast to Hamas. The IDF must conduct itself as a democracy should, taking all reasonable efforts to minimize civilian casualties and collateral damage, despite the daunting challenge of confronting an enemy, Hamas, that has demonstrated zero regard for the value of innocent Palestinian life living in Gaza. My thoughts are with all Israelis, Americans, innocent Palestinians and other foreign citizens who lost loved ones or are suffering as result of Hamas’ deadly attack on Israel. My heart breaks for those experiencing the unimaginable anguish of worrying about a loved one taken hostage by Hamas. My office has been in regular communication with the State Department’s Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs to share my conversations with the families of hostages and receive updates on the Government’s efforts to secure these individuals’ access to essential medical care and, ultimately, safe return home. While I am encouraged to hear about the significant efforts already taken on behalf of these citizens and their families, I, along with the entire United States Government, will continue doing everything I can to ensure those held hostage can return home safely. This includes joining a coalition of Senators in writing to Egypt and Qatar, urging those governments to assist in efforts to secure the release of all hostages held by Hamas. Like so many, I feel immense pain over the unspeakable violence that the world has witnessed in Israel over the last week and the suffering of innocent civilians in Gaza. When so many are hurting around the world, we must actively reject the kind of hatred exhibited by the likes of Hamas and prevent their rhetoric from dividing us at home. I was sickened by the shocking and tragic murder of six-year-old Palestinian-American Wadea Al Fayoume in Plainfield, Illinois. We must unequivocally confront and reject any Islamophobic rhetoric that seeks to conflate the evils of Hamas with the Palestinian people just as we renounce Antisemitism in any form. As a Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, I will work to expeditiously confirm the Honorable Jack Lew to serve as the United States Ambassador to Israel to ensure our Nation has diplomatic leadership in place to facilitate these efforts. During Secretary Lew’s nomination hearing earlier this week, I spoke with him about the need to provide urgent medical care to the hostages being held by Hamas and ultimately bring them home safely and to ensure access to humanitarian aid for all innocent civilians who are suffering in Gaza. This is a major humanitarian crisis, and the global community must address it. Since October 7, President Biden and the rest of the United States Government has acted swiftly to provide information and resources to families of American hostages in Gaza; engage regional partners in negotiations on freeing hostages and sending humanitarian aid to innocent civilians in Gaza; ship security assistance to Israel; and strengthen U.S. force posture in the region to deter Israel’s adversaries from launching their own attacks against Israel. Moving forward, we must act with urgency to secure the sustained flow of humanitarian aid to civilians in Gaza and restore essential services like water as quickly as we can, while continuing our efforts to ensure hostages receive urgent medical treatment and are safely brought home as soon as humanly possible. Innocent life needs to be protected consistent with laws of armed conflict. These actions mark both moral imperatives—helping innocent civilians—and steps toward ensuring Israel’s security. I have called for this on the Senate floor and joined my colleagues in sending letters to the Administration advocating for the immediate provision of necessities like food, water and medicine to innocents in Gaza; a pathway for sustained aid to enter the territory; and a substantial U.S. contribution to the UN’s work to address the growing humanitarian crisis. Additionally, President Biden committed to submitting a formal request to Congress for additional emergency supplemental security assistance that will ensure Israel possesses the capabilities and capacity to defend itself. As a Member of the Senate Committees on Armed Services and Foreign Relations, I am deeply committed to working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to act on the President’s forthcoming request. It is ultimately in our Nation’s interest to uphold the post-World War II order by helping our allies and partners, such as Israel and Ukraine, defend themselves against destabilizing threats, including terrorism and authoritarian invasion. As your Senator, I will always condemn terrorism and hatred and affirm the right of Jewish and Muslim people to live peacefully around the world. Even in this dark moment we must not lose sight of our long-term hope for achieving shared security and peace through a permanent two-state solution that respects the right of Israel to exist, while finally providing the Palestinian people with a country to call home.
Now, first of all, I wrote my emails in kind of a heated moment, so I didn’t think to save them. But trust me when I tell you that I absolutely did not highlight the alleged atrocities by Hamas. It’s telling anyway that Duckworth leads with this, because, for one, she does nothing to disabuse the assumption that the entirety of rumor, propaganda, and utter bullshit that circulated in the wake of the Palestinian resistance’s offensive on occupied Palestinian territory is all true. This entirety includes the bald-faced and incredibly inflammatory lie about 40 Israeli babies being beheaded, a lie that President Biden embraced when he said on international TV that he’d seen the (nonexistent) pictures.
It’s likely that it will be some time (if ever) before we know exactly what the Palestinian raiders actually did, or what the true casualty numbers are (and their nature, i.e. military vs. civilian personnel). This is important, because all the reflexive condemnations of Hamas – which are used to justify Israel’s nakedly genocidal ‘response’ against the millions of people who are not Hamas – are based on the alleged merciless savagery of the Palestinians’ armed incursion beyond the concentration camp’s heavily guarded fences. I suppose I should at least give Duckworth liberal style points for giving herself the plausible deniability of nonspecificity while still throwing up the image of dead Israeli children.
Now, the following sentence is a real screamer, and it highlights what I think is a theme of all official Western discourse right now:
The United States must stand in solidarity with Israel in the aftermath of these deadly terrorist attacks that resulted in the worst loss of Jewish life in a single day since the Holocaust.
Keep in mind that this letter was sent to me after the IDF had bombed the al-Ahli Hospital, killing hundreds of defenseless refugees, probably a significant percentage of them children. With a wider lens we can observe that Duckworth’s response also ignores the last 16 or so years in which the residents of Gaza have been walled in and subjected to horrific daily conditions and periodic orgies of IDF bombing that kill hundreds of defenseless civilians.
But this actually starts right from the second sentence of the first paragraph, when Duckworth starts her timeline on October 7, 2023, thus erasing 75 years of genocidal violence that began with the Nakba and has continued unabated to today’s mass aerial bombardment of Gaza’s largely defenseless men, women, and children.
So with one sentence, Duckworth pulls the trick that Zionists have been using since the end of WWII: citing the horrific culmination of centuries of European crimes to justify settler-colonial genocide against the people of a region where Jewish people historically had not been met with endless persecution. And in pulling this trick, she also makes clear whose lives matter and whose do not.
I could go on and on dissecting this letter, including Duckworth’s profoundly cynical assertions that somehow U.S./Israeli policy is willing to differentiate between Hamas and the rest of the Palestinian population, even as Gaza’s schools and hospitals and everyone inside them are pulverized and burned to death; or that the U.S., having positioned two aircraft carrier groups off the already hyper-patrolled Gaza coast just in case anyone in the world has any notion of stepping in the put a pause on the IDF’s orgy of slaughter, has any intention of relieving the suffering of Gaza’s desperate inhabitants.
I will draw to a close by pointing out that my own Chicago city council, led by its Black, progressive Democratic mayor, recently issued its own historically blindered, darkly comic proclamation offering unequivocal support to Israel’s current genocidal operation. So I have that as a local point of pride.
I’m not yet in the mood to leave all these demonic people to the judgment of history, especially while there are still Palestinian lives that can be saved. I will hold this moment fresh in my heart and mind, though, because there are only a few months to go until breathless liberals are pleading and scolding me and other people of conscience that we have to set aside our morality and join them in re-electing all of these genocide enablers. Oh, they’ll give us the usual excuses about keeping Trump out of office because we have to protect the marginalized… blah blah blah.
But if there are no independent left-wing candidates on my ballot, then I’m going to very purposefully sit out the next national election. And to all the liberal scolding and hand-wringing, I will say with narrowed eyes and a snarl: “I remember Gaza. Go fuck yourself.”
UPDATE (10/20/2023):
I found the little tidbit of Senator Duckworth’s campaign finance info screencapped below at OpenSecrets.org. Do with it what you will:
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CONTENT WARNING: um, don’t go any further if you’re eating or if you’re easily grossed out.
Please take a moment to calm your senses and to clear your mind.
Now take yourself to your favorite place to enjoy a meal. You are not restricted by time or space, so this can be a place you currently frequent or a place that no longer exists for you. It can be your favorite Mongolian grill; maybe it’s that little cafe on the gift shop deck of the Eiffel Tower; or maybe you’re returning to that little two-seat coffee table by the window in your Nana’s kitchen, the one that looks out over her meticulously maintained English-style garden.
Now imagine that in this ethereal place, you’ve just been promised your favorite meal. It can be a single dish, or perhaps a combination of things. I won’t spoil your experience by telling you mine or by suggesting examples. Just let the colors, aromas, flavors, and textures of your favorite soul food come to life before you.
With a warm, loving smile the person serving you sets the plate down before you, and then they produce a little plastic squeeze bottle full of what appears to be a sickly, brownish paste.
“This is tepid, malarial diarrhea,” they say with a wink before topping your food with a pestilent curlicue that immediately forces a nauseating invisible cloud up into your nostrils.
Now, what do you do? Do you immediately and vehemently reject this aesthetic and medical excrescence? Or do you rationalize that you shouldn’t let a little blemish ruin a wonderful meal served in an ideal setting? Bon appetit?
In every USA election cycle, it seems, ostensibly decent and progressive-minded citizens are asked to choose between a lesser of several (in the primaries) or two (in the general elections) evils. Most of us accept without much reservation that our choice is binary, that we must take the Democrat because the Republican is unfailingly so much worse. The recent presidential election, which eventually boiled down to Hillary Clinton versus Donald Trump in all fifty states, was the latest iteration of this phenomenon.
At the presidential level, at least, there were other options available to most voters. Dr. Jill Stein was on the ballot in 45 states, and eligible as a write-in in an additional 3 states. This represented 97% of the available electoral votes, or just under 90% if subtracting the write-in states. Stein’s platform included policies that would seem to be what progressive-minded liberals clamor for. So why did Stein and her running mate Ajamu Baraka barely exceed 1% of the popular vote without coming anywhere near earning an electoral vote?
The 2016 presidential election cycle is just one example of ostensibly progressive US voters clinging doggedly and fruitlessly to lesser-evilism, in spite of an available not-evil alternative. What interests me in this case, though, is not this dynamic on its own, but on the propensity of those same Democratic faithful (especially those with broad public platforms) to castigate leftist voters who work to create and then vote for better alternatives.
We are frequently accused of indulging in ‘purity’ politics, squandering our precious votes on fringe candidates who have no chance to win, thereby making it easier for right-wing popinjays to win office and pad their state and federal legislative majorities. We are accused of measuring Democratic candidates against unreasonable and unrealistic criteria that ignore the prevailing pressures of their respective offices.
I prefer to invert these accusations. What action or policy promoted and executed by your ‘lesser evil’ would be your personal Rubicon? In other words, what could they do to lose your support? Would targeted assassinations that exterminate innocent children do the trick? How about support for foreignreactionaries who– once installed in power or otherwise enabled– invariably resort to a laundry list of atrocities that will usually include mass murder? Could your candidate’s vocal and consistent support for Wall Street miscreants push you past the breaking point?
If you characterize such catastrophically atrocious policy behavior as mere political blemishes that must be accepted in service to some as-yet unrealized greater good, then your moral judgment is suspect. Further, it is difficult to deny that such moral capitulation often yields tangible, harmful results (e.g. the installation of open fascists to our nation’s highest offices) in the near term.
So the next time you get the urge to chide a Green or a socialist for their support for a ‘fringe’ candidate, consider your reaction to this alteration of a commonly wielded liberal electoral bromide:
Don’t let the dietarily fastidious be the enemy of the runny malarial shit.
WASHINGTON, June 4 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Sunday called the London attacks an “evil slaughter” and said the United States would do everything it could in its power to assist the United Kingdom to bring those responsible to justice.
“This bloodshed must end. This bloodshed will end,” Trump said in brief remarks after a gala event at Ford’s Theater in Washington.
Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama on Friday condemned the Paris terror attacks, calling them an “outrageous attempt to terrorize innocent civilians” and pledging the U.S. government’s assistance to France.
“This is an attack on all of humanity and the universal values we share,” Obama said in a statement delivered in the White House Briefing Room.
Now here’s Chris Floyd, spelling out what should be obvious to both of them, and indeed to all of us, but that precious few will ever acknowledge even as our cities are smoldering and smothered under full military lockdown:
In this century alone, the US and UK have helped destroy two largely secular, multicultural regimes that had stood as bulwarks against the kind of Islamic extremism peddled by our allies, Saudi Arabia: Iraq and Libya. A third such country, Syria, has been the target of an ongoing regime change war in which the West and Saudis are openly backing al Qaeda allies and other extremists. This bipartisan policy of fostering extremism for geopolitical ends was also used in Afghanistan, where a thoroughly secular regime was overthrown by Islamic extremists armed, paid and organized by the US, UK, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
I’ve posted this graphic before, and I want to bring it up as a reminder. Liberals who complain about Trump and talk of ‘resistance’ need first to take a rare honest look in a mirror.
I’ve seen no evidence that Barry Obama was in any way cruel to his family’s Portuguese Water Dogs while he was President of the USA. However, during his tenure, Obama was very cruel to many millions of Muslims and thousands of ethnic Russian Ukrainians.
Exponentially more human beings were tortured, murdered, and displaced by Obama than were dogs by Michael Vick. Yet Vick went to prison and had death wished upon him by unknown numbers of liberals. Obama, on the other hand, is still almost unanimously beloved and celebrated by liberals.
We may not have a government we like, but evidently we have the government we deserve.
Directly below is a screen capture of Hillary Clinton being interviewed for national television news in October 2011. She is boasting about having just murdered another country’s president while her plans to destroy his country were coming to fruition. Since the destruction of Libya’s sovereign government, a country that until recently could boast of the highest standard of living and arguably the lowest levels of patriarchal oppression in the region was reduced to a shitty quilt of squabbling, U.S./NATO-sponsored fiefdoms run by gangs of heavily armed, misogynistic, religious assholes.
Now look at Hillary Clinton a few months later, giving a speech at an unfathomably cynical liberal shindig, and let the sign on the lectern make you laugh from rage.
Liberalism is the political philosophy of equal persons – yet liberalism has refused equality to those it saw as sub-persons. Liberalism is the creed of fairness – yet liberalism has been complicit with European imperialism and African slavery. Liberalism is the classic ideology of Enlightenment and political transparency – yet liberalism has cast a dark veil over its actual racist past and present. In sum, liberalism’s promise of equal rights has historically been denied to blacks and other people of color.
In Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism, political philosopher Charles Mills challenges mainstream accounts that ignore this history and its current legacy in self-conceived liberal polities today. Mills argues that rather than bracket as an anomaly the role of racism in the development of liberal theory, we should see it as shaping that theory in fundamental ways. As feminists have urged us to see the dominant form of liberalism as a patriarchal liberalism, so too Mills suggests we should see it as a racialized liberalism. It is unsurprising, then, if contemporary liberalism has yet to deliver on the recognition of black rights and the correction of white wrongs.
I suggest you buy Mills’s book. It’s excellent. Read his The Racial Contract while you’re at it.
Now here’s a brief-ish quote from a blog post (which is, in turn, a transcription of a speech recently given at the University of Mainz in Germany) by cultural critic Dr. Morris Berman:
The same year that Nixon repealed Bretton Woods, 1971, a prominent Washington Democrat by the name of Fred Dutton published a manifesto called Changing Sources of Power. What he said in that document was that it was time for the Democratic Party to forget about the working class. This is not your voting base, he declared; the people you want to court are the white-collar workers, the college-educated, the hip technologically oriented, and so on. Forget about economic issues, he went on; it’s much more a question of lifestyle than anything else. This was the key ideology in the rise of the so-called New Democrats, who in effect repudiated their traditional base and indeed, the whole of Roosevelt’s New Deal, which had historically provided a safety net for that base.
Morris goes on to point out that Bill and Hillary Clinton were part of this “New Democrat” movement. I would argue that they, along with Barry Obama, are its avatars.
Finally, let us turn to the tirelessly astute Nina Illingworth, who deserves your attention and your money:
Liberalism (and by extension, the Democratic Party) has an increasingly obvious hypocrisy problem and voters are clearly starting to notice. Liberals in the US no longer believe in, or stand for anything and those looking to combat the debilitating wave of voter apathy that continues to hamstring the Democratic Party would be wise to start taking this problem very seriously. Say what you will about the “extreme” left and even the noxious, reactionary right in America but neither group lacks the courage of their convictions; even if those convictions are openly repugnant in the case of the latter.
Yes, this is mainstream liberalism. It is worthy of derision, condemnation, and destruction. To the Democratic Party, in particular, I wish nothing but an ignominious and hasty demise. Or, to steal from the late Ashley Morris, ‘Fuck you, you fucking fucks.’
I will close by reminding you all, once again, that this country was built on a pseudo-ethical foundation of wanton bloodlust, insatiable avarice, and brutal patriarchal white supremacy. The blood of millions of innocents still cries out from the tired, ravaged soil (and from the depths of the seas into which countless thousands were thrown). That innocent blood must be answered, and since repentance and restoration are not forthcoming, the atonement must be paid in kind with more blood.
The North American Killing Fields await their bourgeois liberal sacrifice.
I’m sitting with my Mom in a Red Lobster in a south suburb of Chicago (delayed Mother’s Day lunch), and we’re a couple of booths away from a stereotypical middle-aged white male Boomer Trump supporter who’s waxing political with his wife
Christ on a fucking crutch, these people are ignorant. The man was just going on about the supposed existential threat of Korea, and how Obama was too weak to stand up to our foreign threats.
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He and the Mrs. also went on a bit about how they’re glad a character like Trump has a chance to shake things up.
Church of the Bad News 